The probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the
terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents
(not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann,
Keats) and its future, questioning how we distinguish between work
that is unique and work that is original, carefully delineating the
allure of both 'shared traditions' and 'the cult of illogic'.
Attentive always to risk and danger, Louise Gluck illuminates how
the poet at work moves between panic and gratitude, agony and
resolution. Essays on specific writers and on the larger themes of
American literature introduce the terms by which she reads and
celebrates ten younger poets whose work she has advocated. Studded
with brilliant insights into her own practice and the work of her
contemporaries, this is an essential book for any interested reader
of new poetry.
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